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by clubm8 8y ago
> For Fitbit, it's about the money. They reduce their costs with this strategy, and they don't care about your message. I'm saying this is a dangerous line of thinking. What happens when someone does spend the money? Or fi
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> Can't you memorize any amount of numbers with mnemonics? I remember multiple 16 digit CC numbers using it. It gets progressively harder with length, and takes time. (As I mentioned, spaced over days and weeks). If you want to memo
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>I cannot find anything to substantiate this claim. Is your statement applicable only to a single country? This quora post summarizes nicely - Bell standardized on 7 for local (10 counting area code) based on the research I cited earlier
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>You're confusing working memory with memorization capacity in general. Memorizing a ten digit number is not significantly challenging and certainly doesn't take "weeks or months even if practiced every day". It'
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>I think that's just laziness. If you need to memorize a number it just takes a few minutes of work, and then some reinforcement later. Actually it's been well documented that human capacity in working memory is 7±2[1]. This is
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> Last June, for instance, I wrote about a Fitbit lawyer’s all-too-candid admission that no rational litigant would pay a $750 filing fee to arbitrate a claim over a product that costs $162 Sometimes it's not about the money - some
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"Apple and Google accused of hosting Saudi gov't app that tracks women " is a weird phrasing. It's absolutely, 100% verifiably true they host it, as the article plainly states: > Both Google Play and iTunes host Abshe
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farmersonly.com has a lot of cows too ;)
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>Good. >Spotify has a pretty cheap paid option that removes all of that. Five dollars a month for the rest of my life is not "cheap". Frugal people look at the total cost of a loan, not just the monthly payment.
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> Angry drunk vs. happy drunk is a good zeroth-order personality test. And to be fair even "happy drunk" can be unprofessional in the wrong context. But I think anyone who judges someone for how they act in a bar, after dark, a
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Germany just told Facebook to stop tracking users around the internet(news.vice.com)
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Weird, I've gotten "wasted" at tradeshows but never assaulted anyone :)
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> I think it also exists to save money when it comes time to cash out PTO when somebody leaves. Thinking adverserially: what's to stop someone from taking a month off then turning on notice on return?
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> Besides, you can ban credit card number of abusers. It's easy to create an email, it's harder to get a new credit card. Several CC issuers offer virtual card numbers for online purchases you can generate many #s with one card
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>Just because there's no database doesn't mean a gun can't be connected to an owner. Manufacturers keep records of which serial numbers go to which distributors. Those distributors keep track of which dealers get which gun
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>Seems like a pretty typical sting operation, except for the reporter. I think that's the part that parent thought was unusual
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> Remember reading this article in 2015 and then trying to do some simple glitching using C. And I just realized I meant to play with it "when I got some free time"... three years ago :/
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my current job lets you set the autoresponder to only autorespond to people in the org. how is that such a bad risk?
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It makes me feel good I came up with a similar theory to what a trained physicist did, even if it's likely wrong... Thanks for the links, I'm on a wikipedia binge now :)
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> I'm concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with actual people and the physical world. maybe the physical world is overrated
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>idk about bait traps. a long time ago I used the boric acid that is sold in a big squeeze bottle and i just put lines of the stuff near cupboard doors and on the floor. looking back now, i don't think that was a great idea. i would
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by clubm8 8y ago
Personally I think the issue is, and I struggled for a long time to articulate this... escape. I have always struggled with a cluster of issues... too much tv, too much internet, for a period in college binge drinking, overeating... the big
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>We call it "dark matter" because our formulas give the right prediction if we add a lot of mass where we see none, that is, if we assume there is some matter there that does not emit or interact with light. I'm not a phys
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>I am aware of NO nation on earth that has unconstrained free speech, including the USA. I believe the famous canonical example in a US context is shouting fire in a crowded theatre, and therefore speech opposing the draft. How is tellin
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> I'd never advocate showing anything but the upmost respect to the police. I'd advocate showing nothing but contempt to a police officer who refuses to let me go about my business when I have committed no crimes.
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> Do bait traps leave it behind in such a way to be toxic to humans? They're like little domed things the roaches go into... I don't see how it could spread the stuff around. Just wash your counters and cutting boards regularly
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> It's one of the situations that have been proscribed. In this case by the Public Order Act 1986. You just claimed you have free speech. Now you're citing a specific law making it illegal to not be deferential enough to police
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>Actually we do. Under both common law, and statute via the Human Rights Act. Then why was a man fined for telling an officer to piss off for invading his privacy?
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> It is perfectly legal to ask. It's illegal to base hiring decisions on that info though. It's not legal to make answering a condition to submit an application, whether it's a mandatory field or a secretary who won't
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>Of course you can't sue them and get enough money to retire on. They didn't destroy your life, they had a misconfigured form on their damn website. Most HR systems default to allowing a decline due to it being a legal requirem

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